Orange Spot Filefish

That is a very cool looking fish, I love the color patterns!
Thanks very much for sharing with us

 

There was a trio of Red Saddled anthias suppose to go in here but those fish are butts to each other and are being split up.

This pics aren't good because the tank is bowed.... these guys don't get any photo exposure at all because of it. But we just bought a new house... new tank... new pictures will follow.







And here's my little fathead/sunburt anthias. Very timid.

 

Wow, those saddled anthias are beautiful!! Very bright coloring.

 

They are a weird bunch. They are totally afraid of the seahorses and the seahorses are super curious and follow them around. But to each other... yikes!

If they aren't careful I'll put them in with my avatar... then they won't be any trouble anymore....

 

Haha some anthias are very temperamental. My lyretails are pretty snippy with each other. I hope they start getting along better so you can keep them all together!

 

From the looks and sounds of it, you must have a really nice collection of some rare fish in the hobby.
BTW, you beat me back by 2. I have 11 tanks. Only one is a reef and the others are frag and holding tanks. I would love to get my hands on some of the not commonly seen fish in the hobby but the scope of it all in my country is very limited. Very impressive collection indeed. Once again good job. You must have a lot of time on your hands to deal with all the tanks. I get a bit overwhelmed sometimes but once I get going on a maintenance spree, I just don't stop till all the tanks are clean.

 

I've had them since September.... they got worse, not better unfortunately.

Both my husband and I are into the hobby, so the work gets shared. Eventually we won't have all these tanks for most are grow out tanks.

and I still get overwhelmed at times....

My life got much better when I bought a 300gpd RO/DI system. Now I can keep up the the evap and water changes.

 

Update.... if you see 3 saddled anthias for sale.... please pass them by unless they are going in separate tanks. They fought until the one remained. They are timid towards everything else and the filefish rules the show.